Published January 23, 2013
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Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009–2010
- Creators
- Aasi, J.
- Abadie, J.
- Abbott, B. P.
- Abbott, R.
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Adhikari, Rana X.
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Ajith, P.
- Anderson, S. B.
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Arai, K.
- Araya, M. C.
- Barayoga, J. C. B.
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Billingsley, G.
- Black, E.
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Blackburn, J. K.
- Bork, R.
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Brooks, A. F.
- Cepeda, C.
- Chalermsongsak, T.
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Corsi, A.
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Coyne, D. C.
- Daudert, B.
- Dergachev, V.
- Doravari, S.
- Driggers, J. C.
- Ehrens, P.
- Engel, R.
- Etzel, T.
- Fotopoulos, N.
- Gustafson, E. K.
- Heefner, J.
- Heptonstall, A. W.
- Hodge, K. A.
- Ivanov, A.
- Jacobson, M.
- James, E.
- Kalmus, P.
- Kells, W.
- Keppel, D. G.
- King, P. J.
- Kondrashov, V.
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Korth, W. Z.
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Kozak, D.
- Lazzarini, A.
- Lindquist, P. E.
- Litvine, V.
- Mageswaran, M.
- Mailand, K.
- Maros, E.
- Marx, J. N.
- McIntyre, G.
- Meshkov, S.
- Nash, T.
- Ogin, G. H.
- Osthelder, C.
- Pedraza, M.
- Phelps, M.
- Poux, C.
- Price, L. R.
- Privitera, S.
- Reitze, D. H.
- Rollins, J. G.
- Sannibale, V.
- Santamaría, L.
- Seifert, F.
- Singer, A.
- Singer, L.
- Smith, M. R.
- Stochino, A.
- Taylor, R.
- Torrie, C. I.
- Vass, S.
- Villar, A. E.
- Wallace, L.
- Whitcomb, S. E.
- Willems, P. A.
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Williams, R.
- Yamamoto, H.
- Yeaton-Massey, D.
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Zhang, L.
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Zweizig, J.
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Chen, Y.
- Hong, T.
- Kaufman, K.
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Miao, H.
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Ott, C. D.
- Somiya, K.
- Thorne, K. S.
- Wen, L.
- Yang, H.
- Drever, R. W. P.
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Harms, J.
- Langley, A.
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Weinstein, A. J.
- Robertson, N. A.
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- Virgo Collaboration
Abstract
We report a search for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes (BBH) with total mass between 25 and 100 solar masses, in data taken at the LIGO and Virgo observatories between July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010. The maximum sensitive distance of the detectors over this period for a (20,20)M_⊙ coalescence was 300 Mpc. No gravitational wave signals were found. We thus report upper limits on the astrophysical coalescence rates of BBH as a function of the component masses for nonspinning components, and also evaluate the dependence of the search sensitivity on component spins aligned with the orbital angular momentum. We find an upper limit at 90% confidence on the coalescence rate of BBH with nonspinning components of mass between 19 and 28M_⊙ of 3.3×10^(-7) mergers Mpc^(-3) yr^(-1).
Additional Information
© 2013 American Physical Society. Received 19 October 2012; published 23 January 2013. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, the Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Research Foundation of Korea, Industry Canada and the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.Attached Files
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- NSF
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Max Planck Society
- State of Niedersachsen/Germany
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Australian Research Council
- International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India)
- Ministerio de Economía y Competividad (MEC)
- Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears
- Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM)
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland)
- FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science
- Royal Society
- Scottish Funding Council
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- NASA
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Industry Canada
- Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Carnegie Trust
- Leverhulme Trust
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Research Corporation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
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- LIGO, TAPIR